Washing-machine.



PATENTED SEPT. 24, 1907.

E. v. ALLEN. WASHING MACHINE.

APPLIOATIOH FILED JAN. 2, 1906.

gin-rm VICTOR ALLEN, OF HIAWATHA, KANSAS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 24, 1907.

' Application filed January 2, 1906. Serial No. 294,288.

I To all whom it may 'coiwem:

Be it known thatI, Emma Vrcron ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hiawatha, in the county of Brown and Stateof Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing- Machines; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains'to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereonfwhich form a part. of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in washing 'machines, including improvements on a machine for which I obtained Letters Patent issued by the United States Patent Ofiice under date of Ianuary'ZG, 1904 numbered 750,419 and I have as my object the pro duction of a novel and simple device wherein the clothes are swung through the water, producing a rub-i bing, squeezing and suction action upon them without geared machinery and its consequent weight, noise in operation, expense and loss of motion,

.The improvements consist chiefly in a simple elongated cup or hood, which causes the water to dash upward and outward from the forward side, and downward and outward from the rear side of the cup which cup is attached to an agitator of simpler construction than that covered by said Letters Patent No. 750,419

- and which is provided with an adjustable hand grip to enable the operator to shorten or lengthen his leverage while operating the machine. I attain .these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the interior of the machine, upheld by a combined frame and support. Fig. 2 is a top view of a tank and cup, the top of the tank and rod and grip omitted. Fig. 3 is a detail of the cup and agitator. Fig. 4 is a top view of the device,

with its lid closed in position'in a combined frame and stooljFig. 5 is a side view ofagitatorwith grip and vacuum cup removed and 6 is a detail of one of the looped feet ofthe machine.

Similar letters refer to parts the several I views.

In these figures A represents the box or tank of the machine, B the top thereof, and G C the handles. D D are stop plates, E E radiating rub bars, spaced slightly above or resting upon the bottom of the machine. These bars as well as comer-posts P P-may be omitted-in the construction of the machine, if preferred.

H H are legs and H H cross pieces, the legs and I is an agitator rod provided at its lower end with two oppositely extended arms I I.

J is a cup of elongated shape, rigidly fastened to the lower end of said rod I, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Said agitator I and its projecting arms are formed of a single rod the lower bent end of the rod forming one.

arm which extends beyond the bottom of the cup at one end thence it extends slightly above the top of andsvithin said end of the cup, and along the bottom to the center thereof, thence to and out of the opposite end of the cup and around to the point of beginning forming the other arm. In its course this extension of the rod hugs the bottom of the cup both inside and outside as well as the inside of the ends of the cup, rigidly but, as shown in Figs. 1, 2and 3, on the outside of the cup it is spaced from the ends thereof forming loops upon which the clothes most soiled may be hung, or into which spaces they may .be held in order that they may be brought into the full force of the current of water that is deflected from the sides of the cup in its rotary motion besides holding the clothes in a position where they will be squeezed against the stop plates and more thoroughly cleansed. The front of the agitator is that part of the elongated cup: which is I forced against the water in its rotary motion by the power at the handle of said rod; either side of said cup may be the front it depending on the direction in which the power is applied; only one half of either side of the cup can at any time bethe front, but the other half is front on reverse motion. 'J is a saddle carried by rod I at the bottom of cup I and riveted thereto. The upper end of said rod is bent forming handle K. This handle is provided with hand grip K which is made adjustable on handle K, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, to enable the operator to shorten or lengthen the strokes of thehandle in operatingsaid agitator rods. R isastop flange on said handle and L is a faucet. As shown in Fig. l this faucet is placed in the side of the tank close to the bottom, and

as the metal sides of the tank, instead of the bottom edge being turned upward around the sides, all the water can be readily drained. out of the bottom of the tank through said faucet. Said sides of the tank being turned underneath in the form of loops 0 O-they serve as seams to elevate the tank slightly above the floor when it is removed from its combined stool and crate.

2 seems gated cup, back to point of contact with said rod, substan- What-I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent trally as set forth and shown. 10

In testimony whereof, I atfix my signature, in presence In a washing machine thecombination with a vertical of two witnesses.

agitator rod, of a saddle thereon, an elongated inverted ELMER VICTOR ALLEN cup, oval at the mouth, narrowing towards the bottom,

and held rigidly within said saddle, and the two arms Witnesses:

formed by the lower end of said rod projected around, HOMER A. OSBORN,

Within and without, both bottom and ends of said glon- F J. COOK. 

